Bam. There, I did it. Sent an email to a lab director who's doing genomic mining. His lab hits everything I'm interested in, all the processes, every door that opens to more stuff, cuz I have ideas and interests already mapped out. I hope he accepts. He's a top researcher at a tier1 research university and he's well cited and talks at conferences. Getting into his lab would be amazing.

The fingerprint of evil is that it copies and then mocks the good. Learn to recognize it - its everywhere. You can't unsee it. View quoted note →

Basic plan for the next decade : there are several pharmaceutical companies which should not exist. There's a very simple way to transfer the billions of dollars out of their stock value to the people they victimize, while dramatically improving the human condition for the whole planet, forever. Nobody's doing it. Well, to all the people who could do it but haven't : 🖕. I'll do it. That's a challenge, archons.

Bio 1 completed. Just finished final exam. I got an A, I can feel it. Now.... I guess now I email some researchers at the big university and see if I can join their lab. Fingers crossed.

PSA : graduate degrees in STEM fields are usually funded, meaning you don't have to pay, if you can get in. So go get that degree... Not the meaningless paper that bachelor's amounts to, but the real thing. You just gotta show up. Every day, for a few years... But its doable. I didn't know this - nobody ever told me - but money is not the limiting factor.

Post stroke strangeness : I've been finding huge pimples on my left side, which is the numb side. Left side of belly button, real close to the line (glorious pop) ; left shoulder ; left leg... Quite unusual... Entertaining, tho.

I should be studying for the final exam, but instead I'm researching nickel toxicicity and how to reverse it. There's a lot... There's definitely some options. But one thing came up - NAC - that we've probably all heard of from the covid debacle. It looks like if you did 4 main things, you could probably reverse nickel damage to your genome/epigenome and minimize cancer risk and maybe even reverse cancer with a little extra push from some drug. First, get plenty of iron so iron is available to replace the nickel after dislodging it, and yes it must be dislodged cuz it realllllly tightly binds your DNA. Then, simultaneously, focus on a "methylation diet" and in particular go for the B vitamins and Betaine (just in case you have the motherfucker gene). You need all four parts of that diet, but maybe some parts more, depending. Third, use NAC and eat broccoli. Your cells need NAC to upregulate metallothioneins, which grab the Ni2+ off the phosphate they're glued to. The broccoli is good because sulphoraphane opens up the chromatin loops that wound around the Ni. And fourth, have fasting days. That puts the pin in it, remethylating the genes that got demethylated. And exercise, do HIIT - same reason. There's more... A lot more... But those seem most salient. And friends don't let friends drink from stainless steel thermices.

🤔 If you wanted to upgrade AI to make it slightly more useful, you could have two parallel text streams, and on one you highlight a segment of text and on the other you input your question. Then you could really analyze a topic without losing your place or organization. Ans in the second input/output stream, you could pull up bookmarked segments and view them in parallel. Idk, maybe this exists if you pay for it.

Nevermind, Project Hail Mary is. View quoted note →

OooOoh, new thingy found! Methylation diet... There are certain foods that provide the right nutrients (folate/b9, b12, choline, betaine) to methylate your DNA, meaning turning off genes that might be harmful. If your grandparents were fat or smoked, you probably have some "bad genes" turned on and you can turn them back off. Still researching, don't hate if this is too simplistic.

I think GATTACA is my new favorite movie. I'm very glad my bio prof made this a bonus assignment. It might oughtta be required... Now I find out what she wants me to write about, but I'm afraid I'll have to explain that that's already the world we live in.